Blog
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
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Congress May Kick the Can Again on the Doc Fix
Repeating a story heard many times before, in a speech at a Federation of American Hospitals conference, House Ways And Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI...
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CBO and BPC Predict Debt Ceiling Deadline Not Until the Fall
October or November -- that's the deadline by which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts lawmakers must increase the debt...
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Financial Report of the U.S. Government Shows Bleak Picture
Every year, the Treasury Department releases the Financial Report of the United States Government, which provides a detailed picture of the government...
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Fisher, Gregg, and Weinstein: A Prescription for What's Ailing ACOs
Dr. Elliott Fisher, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Dr. James Weinstein penned an op-ed published in Modern Healthcare discussing the need to...
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Keith Hall Appointed as Next CBO Director
Speculation over the next director of the Congressional Budget Office ended today as the House and Senate Budget Committees announced that Keith Hall...
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Lorenzen: Comprehensive Social Security Reform is Best to Address SSDI Insolvency
Ed Lorenzen, Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified Wednesday in front of the Ways and Means Social Security...
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The National Debt Must Be A Priority For The Next President
No matter how difficult the conversation, the national debt needs to be a top priority in the 2016 presidential election, and the next president needs...
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Medicare Slowdown at Risk: The Imperative of Fixing ACOs
Today, Fix the Debt, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, and Dartmouth College released a paper titled Medicare Slowdown at Risk: The Imperative of Fixing...
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The Benefits of Medicare Benefit Redesign
In a little over one month, lawmakers will face their second significant Fiscal Speed Bump of the year when the one-year "doc fix" expires. At that...
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Yellen: High Debt Could Undermine Flexibility
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen delivered testimony on the Semiannual Monetary Policy report to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. Not...
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CRFB's Ed Lorenzen Testifies to Congress on SSDI
This afternoon, Ed Lorenzen, Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, will testify in front of the Ways and Means...
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Business Tax Reform Chapter Lays Out Administration's Thinking
The Council of Economic Advisers released its 2015 Economic Report of the President last week, discussing several recent economic developments and how...